Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says key ISIS leader killed in Syria

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By  India Blooms News Service   May 01, 2023

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced his countrys security forces have killed a suspected key leader of Islamic State (IS) in Syria.

The leader has been identified as Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi.

Erdogan told broadcaster TRT Turk the IS leader was neutralised in a Turkish MIT intelligence agency operation on Saturday, reports BBC.

The ISIS terror group did not comment on the issue so far.

The MIT intelligence agency had been following Qurayshi for a long time, Erdogan was quoted as saying by BBC.

We will continue our struggle with terrorist organisations without any discrimination, he added, providing no further details.